South Africa is a water-scarce country, the 30th driest in the world. Using water wisely will become more and more important as the population grows and droughts related to climate change increase. A lack of clean, fresh ...
Environment
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For over a decade, scientists have made extraordinary progress on the long-held dream of fabricating an entire cell from nonliving molecules and materials.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 24, 2024
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The Australian parliament will conduct a national inquiry into the dangers of "forever chemicals."
Environment
Aug 24, 2024
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Sub-Saharan Africa has a vast amount of uncultivated, arable land—about 2 million km2, accounting for about 50% of the global total. This land is a critical habitat for many animal species, including birds.
Ecology
Aug 24, 2024
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Search and rescue for missing persons is always challenging for the specialist recovery teams involved, regardless of the environment they're working in.
Environment
Aug 24, 2024
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So much science news this week. It's like a torrential deluge of information bursting explosively through a levee of ignorance. Who built that levee, anyway? How did they get that through the legislature? Anyway, of the hundreds ...
To introduce quantum networks into the marketplace, engineers must overcome the fragility of entangled states in a fiber cable and ensure the efficiency of signal delivery. Now, scientists at Qunnect Inc. in Brooklyn, New ...
The ceramic produced in Prof. Igor Lubomirsky's lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science seemed too good to be true. It belongs to a class of materials that are the backbone of many essential technologies but that unfortunately ...
Materials Science
Aug 24, 2024
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Giant black holes in the centers of galaxies like our own Milky Way are known to occasionally munch on nearby stars.
Astronomy
Aug 24, 2024
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On a remote tallgrass prairie in North Dakota, a secretive orchid pokes up from the ground. You'll only find it if you know where to look.
Ecology
Aug 24, 2024
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